How Full Is Full?
Students learn about porosity and permeability and relate these concepts to groundwater flow. They use simple materials to conduct a porosity experiment and use the data to understand how environmental engineers decide on the placement and treatment of a drinking water well.
Phase Diagrams
This site is a set of lecture notes from a petrology class by Dr. Susan DeBari at Western Washington University. The lectures explain the process of mineral crystallization and phase relationships as a function of temperature and pressure. Topics covered include the phase rule, one-component systems (unary), two-component systems (binary), and three-component systems (ternary), as well as equilibrium crystallization, equilibrium melting, fractional crystallization, and fractional melting. Diagra
Postglacial Flooding of the Bering Land Bridge
This geospatial animation shows sea level rising across the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska. During the last Glacial Maximum (~21,000 years ago), the Bering Land Bridge was a vast tundra plain connecting Asia and North America. At that time, the global sea level was 120 meters lower than it is today. Melting ice sheets and glaciers caused the sea level to rise and flood the land bridge. A QuickTime file of this animation can be viewed or downloaded for analysis, education and outreach. Th
Rock Cycle Animations
This site features Flash animations that illustrate various facets of the rock cycle. The visualizations depict rock-forming processes, such as erosion, transportation, deposition, cementation, crystallization, subduction, and eruption, that create sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rocks. They also show cooling environments that result in varied crystal sizes and demonstrate igneous rock classification. The animations can be paused and rewound to stress important points. These resources are
Mentoring matters
How mentors can serve as role models, helpers, and colleagues.
Rethinking reports
Breathing new life into tired assignments: A little creativity can make research a rewarding learning experience for students and teachers alike. The introduction to a collection of articles that provide alternative assignments to traditional reports.
ISKME's Roadtrip Nation Design Workshop
This wiki page documents the Design Process Workshop ISKME facilitated at the Roadtrip Nation offices in Costa Mesa, CA on February 18, 2011. Storytelling, design thinking, improv, brainstorming, and prototyping were used to design for the Design Challenge:
How might we create more teacher engagement with the Roadtrip Nation Experience?
Projection Investigation Activity
This wiki page documents the Projection Investigation Activity done during San Francisco Unified School District's SLANT workshop on January 29, 2011. Projection information, Julia Marshall's 5 Ways to Integrate, and links are provided, as well as the introductory Improv Activity "Advertising Team" which stretches the imagination to design something for the future. The Projection Investigation Activity begins with research around a scientific theme, then brainstorming and prototyping design idea
Has Fairtrade Asked for Enough?
In this discussion event, a range of speakers look back over 15 years of the Fairtrade Mark and consider whether the movement for a fairer trading system has been ambitious enough. Is Fairtrade catalysing broader social change? Should Fairtrade be working with big corporates and retailers? Is Fairtrade moving producers up the value chain? Is it time to make the rules harder? Adam Brett co-founded Tropical Wholefoods, and is a director of Fullwell Mill, and the Out of this World UK healthfood ret
Rt. Hon. David Miliband MP - Compton Lecture Series
“The War in Afghanistan: How to End It”
Wednesday,
March 10, 2010, 3:30pm
David Miliband (b. 1965) is the former Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, in which post he served from June 2007 to October 2010.
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011- Synthèse des ateliers et perspectives.
Les valeurs fondamentales, celles qui tournent autour de la solidarité, de la confiance et de la famille, restent partagées par le plus grand nombre. Notre société valorise certes l'individualisme et le succès, mais je sens derrière une attente plus profonde, un désir de partage et de paix. Ne nous laissons pas piéger par les apparences, bonnes et mauvaises. Apprenons au contraire à hiérarchiser ces valeurs, sans tomber dans l'angélisme. On peut avoir l'esprit de compétition san
Ancient Japan
Japan during the time period of 1000AD 1200AD is the subject of this student made four minute video. A fair overview, but it may be best as an example of what other students could do.
Repeal of the 18th Amendment
This one minute video quickly explains the amendment and it repeal. Not much depth, but some original footage might be of interest.
L’hygiène alimentaire - Annie Beaufort (audio)
Une conférence de l'UTLS au lycée
L’hygiène alimentaire
Avec Annie Beaufort (chercheuse à L’AFSSA - Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments)
Partenariat Région Ile de France
Catch-Up History and the Cold War
World-renowned expert on Cold War intelligence and espionage Peter Hennessy will address recently declassified documents and how history can help us 'catch-up' with the threats of today. Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at QMUL and was recently elected a Fellow of the British Academy as well as being an Honorary Fellow of LSE. Before joining the Department in 1992, he was a journalist for twenty years with spells on The Times as a leader writer and Whitehall Cor
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar: Toxics 02/22/2011 #5: Q&A
Managing Risk:
The Case of Safer Alternatives to Toxics
Speakers:
Joel Tickner, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Robert A. Rio, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Moderator:
Jennifer Nash, Senior Research Associate, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University
Gov't and the Marketplace Seminar: Toxics 02/22/2011 #6: Next Month Preview
Managing Risk:
The Case of Safer Alternatives to Toxics
Speakers:
Joel Tickner, Associate Professor, Department of Community Health and Sustainability, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Robert A. Rio, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Associated Industries of Massachusetts
Moderator:
Jennifer Nash, Senior Research Associate, Nanotechnology and Society Research Group, Northeastern University
The Alleged Unbroken Trend Toward Progress Black History Timeline: An Interactive Site
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Starts at 1619 and goes until 2009. The students click on any individual mentioned and gets a paragraph explaining the deeds to that individual. This site would be good for students to get a quick look at some of the most famous Blacks in American history, but is far from complete. Having the students find others to add might be a good class project.
